Patricia Rossi, 54

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Longtime Staten Island resident Patricia Rossi, 54, of Annadale, a dedicated homemaker, died Saturday in the Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay, after a long illness.

She was born Patricia Pisaniello in the Bronx and was brought to Great Kills as a girl. She graduated from Curtis High School and lived in Grant City and Stapleton before she and Kenneth Rossi wed in 1981 and settled in Annadale.

Mrs. Rossi was a computer operator in the Securities Department of the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan. She left the workforce to care for her family and home.

A dedicated mother, she was involved in the PTAs at her children's schools and was the secretary of her son's soccer team.

Mrs. Rossi was creative and enjoyed scrapbooking and other crafts.

She always thought of others before herself, her daughter said.

Mrs. Rossi was a parishioner of Holy Child R. C. Church, Eltingville.

Surviving, along with Kenneth, her husband of 31 years, are her son, Michael, and her daughter, Vanessa Rossi.

Arrangements, including cremation, were handled by the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville.